I am having problems setting a variable. I would like the variable to be set when any object is dropped on a receiving drop zone - not just a specific object. I have tried to leave the object as "unassigned" but this does not seem to work and the trigger disappears.
If this is not available, I will have to write a trigger for each object and when you have many objects, the work is both considerable and confusing because of the mass of triggers required.
This hasn't changed in Storyline yet, but if you can share a bit more about what you'd like to set up, folks in the community may be able to offer ideas!
If you want you can also share your .story file here by uploading with the Add Attachment button.
Sad to see that it's not a feature yet. It's already tedious enough that you can't have multiple drop targets in the preset for D&D and have to manually set up the drop interaction using triggers.
Now imagine you have an activity that has no right or wrong answers and 20 images to drop into 6 hot spots representing 6 different categories... buuut the tiling feature doesn't work as anticipated and the images are overlapping. Search the community to find that now you have to break each of those 6 hot spots into a grid of 9 each to keep the pictures from overlapping. Finally get it to work and now you need audio to play as an object is dragged into the category. Should be simple enough.
Buuut because you can't choose a checklist of objects to be dropped on the hotspots, you have to create a trigger and duplicate it for all 20 images. That wouldn't be the worst work-around, except I'd have to do it all again. 5 more times. Since this feature isn't an option something that could easily be 6 triggers turns into 120. Hopefully it doesn't bug out with all those triggers (that's usually what happens).
TL;DR,
In the Trigger Wizard for "When: Object dropped on", the checkbox function to choose multiple objects should be added to the "Object" section, not just on the "Dropped On". It would greatly reduce the number of triggers and overall increase the user's experience.
I really appreciate that feedback, Le Gouje. What you're saying makes a lot of sense! Our product team is always keen to hear about customer needs, so I can certainly pass along your suggestion. And feel free to share any other ideas you have here: Feature Request Form.
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Andrew, you will need plenty of triggers!
In this case I normally build one object and set all the triggers then duplicate which aLos copies the triggers as well
Thanks Phil!
Any chance this has changed?
Hi Robin,
This hasn't changed in Storyline yet, but if you can share a bit more about what you'd like to set up, folks in the community may be able to offer ideas!
If you want you can also share your .story file here by uploading with the Add Attachment button.
Sad to see that it's not a feature yet. It's already tedious enough that you can't have multiple drop targets in the preset for D&D and have to manually set up the drop interaction using triggers.
Now imagine you have an activity that has no right or wrong answers and 20 images to drop into 6 hot spots representing 6 different categories... buuut the tiling feature doesn't work as anticipated and the images are overlapping. Search the community to find that now you have to break each of those 6 hot spots into a grid of 9 each to keep the pictures from overlapping. Finally get it to work and now you need audio to play as an object is dragged into the category. Should be simple enough.
Buuut because you can't choose a checklist of objects to be dropped on the hotspots, you have to create a trigger and duplicate it for all 20 images. That wouldn't be the worst work-around, except I'd have to do it all again. 5 more times. Since this feature isn't an option something that could easily be 6 triggers turns into 120. Hopefully it doesn't bug out with all those triggers (that's usually what happens).
TL;DR,
In the Trigger Wizard for "When: Object dropped on", the checkbox function to choose multiple objects should be added to the "Object" section, not just on the "Dropped On". It would greatly reduce the number of triggers and overall increase the user's experience.
Thanks,
Le Gouje
I really appreciate that feedback, Le Gouje. What you're saying makes a lot of sense! Our product team is always keen to hear about customer needs, so I can certainly pass along your suggestion. And feel free to share any other ideas you have here: Feature Request Form.
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